Butte semi-weekly miner. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1886-1890, 1887-05-07
DOMESTIC INFELICITY.
A Divorced Woman Leaves Her Second
Husband and Goes With No. 1.

A Divorced Woman Leaves Her Second
Husband aud Goes With No. 1.
NAsv1LLE, Tenn, May 5.-About the
first of March there appeared here a mid.
dle-aged man of prepossessing appearance
and elegant manners, who gave his name
as Davis and his occupation as that OF
music teacher. He allied himself with the
Watkins Park Methodist Church, and
every thing fourished with him. However,
the newcomer showed himself not averse
to borrowing. and in fact, as proof now
goes to show, he hardly ever allowed to
pass by an opportunity to secure loan.
and from several prominent. gentlemen he
received nice amounts.
On Thursday night Mr.. Davis dis
appeared. which occasioned considerable
remark, and on the same day on which he
took departure the wife OF Mr.. w. NJ.
Petty, gentleman living in South Nash.
vile, also disappeared. It is now revealed
that the two went together. The music
teachers real name was not Davis, but A.
B. Bohanan. Years ago he was a Cumber-
land Presbyterian preacher and he married
while wearing the clerical robes Miss Ella
Rose, the daughter of E. 7. Rose of this
citv, For years they lived together in
Wilson County, but the charge OF obtain
ing money under false pretenses arising
against him he took his wife and one child,
a boy named Charley, up to Logansport,
Indiana. There she obtained divorce
from him and subsequently came back to
Nashville. That was eight years since.
Three years ago Mr.. w. NJ. Petty, who is
in business on Broadway, met the lady.
married her, and up till the unexpected turn
of affairs they have lived in harmony and
happiness, never hearing OF Bohanan and
rarely alluding to him.
"About six weeks ago." said the deserted
husband in relating the story, II came
home one evening and my wife told me that
Bohanan had been at the house. told
her that didn't want him to be making
visits to her. but she said he came to see
Charley, his and my wife's 1O-year-old boy.
told Ella that the man came with no good
intention, and asked her not to see him any
more, but in spite Of my wishes he went to
see her three times after tEat.
ION Thursday morning left her as usual
with kiss, and went to my work and, on
returning that night, found the house
locked, and after getting in found note
in which she said that she had become con-
vinced that according to scripture she was
committing adultery in living with me,
having another husband living, and she
didn't want to go to torment and drag me
with her. She also said that she didn't
think we ever loved each other as man and
wife should, and she wound up by saying
that she was going to take Charley and
leave.
Il cannot believe that she has gone with
Bohanan, though I know, of course, that
he ia at the bottom OF the whole thing.
When he came here and saw US happy and
prosperous a feeling OF revenge for her leav-
ing him took possession OF him. think,
and he determined to blight her life. My
wife's father says he thinks she has gone to
Kentucky"
A letter was received to-day by Mrs.
Robert NJ. Petty from the missing woman,
which states that she was led to her fight
by the advice of three preachers, who had
advised her that she was doing wrong. The
facts all point, however, to her having
gone with her former husband.